On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 12:47:52PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Would lxc-snapshot gain anything from the ability to fsfreeze an overlay > > mount? > > lxc-snapshot only works on stopped containers. 'lxc snapshot' can do live > snapshots using criu. Tycho, does that do anything right now to freeze the > fs? Not that I'm aware of (CRIU might, but we don't in liblxc). > I'm not sure that freezing all the tasks is necessarily enough to settle > the fs, but I assume you're doing something about that already? I suspect it's not, but we're not doing anything besides freezing the tasks. In fact, we freeze the tasks by using the freezer cgroup, which itself is buggy, since the freezer cgroup can race with various filesystems. So, freezing tasks is hard, and I haven't even thought about how to freeze the fs for real :) But in any case, an fs freezing primitive does sound useful for checkpoint restore, assuming that we're right and freezing the tasks is simply not enough. Tycho
